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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1725 Excerpt: ...him, she covered "her Head and Face with a white Veil. The young Maids and Women stay"ed in the other Part of the Temple where Lucina's Statue was, singing u Hymns to Sofipolis, and burning all forts of Perfumes. But Wine was never £ offered to him. The greatest Oaths were taken at his Altar. The Occasion f of this Devotion was this: An Army of the Arcadians having made an Ir"ruption intoElis; the Elians armed, and met them. A Woman with a Child ft at her Breast went to the general Officers, and told them Æc was admonislie ed in a Dream to bring this Infant, her Son, to them, to assist them against "their Enemies. They believed the Woman, and placed the Child quite na"ked before the Army. The Arcadians came on to engage,-when on a sod"den the Child was changed into a Serpent, and the Arcadians, terrified with u the Prodigy, fled; the Elians pursued them, and got a remarkable Victory. "In Acknowledgment of which they named this God Sofipolis, because he had "/aved their City-, and built a Temple in the Place where the Serpent retired "after the Battle; and honoured Lucina together with him, because she had "assisted at the Birth of the Child. PLATE III. The first Roman Groupe which follows1, is generally thought to repre XXVIII. fent Castor and Pollux: Any two young Men together, are usually imagined to 1 be Castor and Pollux; as if, in all Antiquity, no two young Men were represented in Company but these two. The late Bishop of Hadria thought they were two Genii, which is very probable, and took the Figure behind one of them for an Ifis. But I should rather think it is one of the Lares, or Penates: And perhaps the two Youths may be Lares also. For these Gods are often crowned with Laurel. But these...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1725 Excerpt: ...him, she covered "her Head and Face with a white Veil. The young Maids and Women stay"ed in the other Part of the Temple where Lucina's Statue was, singing u Hymns to Sofipolis, and burning all forts of Perfumes. But Wine was never £ offered to him. The greatest Oaths were taken at his Altar. The Occasion f of this Devotion was this: An Army of the Arcadians having made an Ir"ruption intoElis; the Elians armed, and met them. A Woman with a Child ft at her Breast went to the general Officers, and told them Æc was admonislie ed in a Dream to bring this Infant, her Son, to them, to assist them against "their Enemies. They believed the Woman, and placed the Child quite na"ked before the Army. The Arcadians came on to engage,-when on a sod"den the Child was changed into a Serpent, and the Arcadians, terrified with u the Prodigy, fled; the Elians pursued them, and got a remarkable Victory. "In Acknowledgment of which they named this God Sofipolis, because he had "/aved their City-, and built a Temple in the Place where the Serpent retired "after the Battle; and honoured Lucina together with him, because she had "assisted at the Birth of the Child. PLATE III. The first Roman Groupe which follows1, is generally thought to repre XXVIII. fent Castor and Pollux: Any two young Men together, are usually imagined to 1 be Castor and Pollux; as if, in all Antiquity, no two young Men were represented in Company but these two. The late Bishop of Hadria thought they were two Genii, which is very probable, and took the Figure behind one of them for an Ifis. But I should rather think it is one of the Lares, or Penates: And perhaps the two Youths may be Lares also. For these Gods are often crowned with Laurel. But these...
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